Sociology 2011-2012

This catalog highlights titles appropriate for use in undergraduate and graduate-level sociology and related courses. Also contains examination copy ordering information for professors who would like to review books for adoption purposes.

This catalog highlights titles appropriate for use in undergraduate and graduate-level sociology and related courses. Also contains examination copy ordering information for professors who would like to review books for adoption purposes.

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primatologist Frans de Waal uses a variety of studies on empathy in animals to debunk the idea that humans are competitive to the core.Empathy, de Waal explains, is the social glue that holds communities together, and if humans areempathetic animals, it is because we have “the backing of a long evolutionary history.”

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By Rebecca Skloot

Winner of:

Chicago Tribune

Heartland Prize for Nonfiction; the Wellcome Trust Book Prize; and The AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science’s Young Adult Science Book Award

“Heartbreaking and powerful . . . a richly textured story of the hidden costs of scientific progress. Deftly weaving together history, journalism and biography, Skloot’s sensitive account . . . at long last, restores ahuman face to the cell line that propelled 20th-century biomedicine. A stunning illustration of how race, gender and disease intersect to produce a unique form of social vulnerability.”—Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

is an impressive interdisciplinary volume that breaks down the academic-activistboundaries by presenting a theoretically riveting analysis where the research participants also actively co-produce knowledge and shape the final story/history. Somalis emerge as dynamic actors shapingtheir own destinies while also struggling against complex borders, boundaries, bureaucracies, and biases. This is a welcome counter-narrative to recent portrayals and ‘othering’ of Muslims and a must read forall interested in the emerging African Muslim communities in America.” —Cawo Abdi,Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota